by Mar
RAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT-TAT flesh is flying all over the place slapping its self on young children's faces, students are screaming and yelling and running for their lives.....this could have happened but hey we don't know, textbooks never mention this at all. But why?
Is it not obvious, people don't want everyone to know what really happened when civil right leaders like Malcolm X used violence to find freedom for their races. Three reasons why this would be is: they don't want to show that people actually feared civil right leaders, they don't want children to know the truth about history, they don't want them to know that there was violence involved not just people protesting and going against things in a peaceful way!
They don't show that the country actually feared some civil right leaders because they are trying to make people think that America and Americans have never been threatened by civil right leaders or their supporters. The text books just want people to think that everything happened without people being threatened or killed and everything was violent less and peaceful and that Amercica is not afraid of anything or anyone.
They don't want children to know the truth about history. They also don't want them to think that some people who have fought for freedom were the bad guys as well. Not telling them the whole truth would be another reason because they do not want kids to think about doing these things. They also don't want them to seem like the bads guys.
The final reason would be, they do not want us to know that besides protesting and going on strike people used violence. They don't want children to know this because they don't want them to think about it and believe that it is the way to solve our problems.
That is why text books do not show all that was or is, they don't want people who were bad seem bad, they probably don't want people to think they even existed! They also seem to think that it is unimportant.
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